northwest China's Shaanxi Province, July 21, 2024. More than 700 professional rescuers and over 1,500 local people are searching for 31 people who are unaccounted for after their vehicles plunged into a flooding river due to a highway bridge collapse amid torrential rains in northwest China's ...
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? Soviet invasion of AfghanistanSoviet helicopter and tank operations in the Afghan War, Afghanistan, 1984. The Afghan War quickly settled down into a stalemate, with more than 100,000 Soviet troops controlling the cities, larger towns, and major garrisons and the...
collapse of Austria-Hungary. The French and British offensives of March had enabled him to judge the extent to which he could safely weaken his western front to provide the necessary forces for this endeavour. He determined on a breakthrough on theDunajec Riverbetween the Carpathians and the ...
Publication of this survey had originally been intended to coincide with the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, scheduled for September 29th-30th in Washington, D.C. Those meetings, and the big anti-globalization pro- tests that had been planned to accompany ...
The blast happened around 10 a.m. local time (0900 GMT) Wednesday at a gunpowder factory in Makolno, causing a collapse of a storey building, burying two people. More than 20 firefighter units, including chemical specialists and rescue-search teams were working at the site. ...
Dozens of casualties feared in Mexico train bridge collapse Rescuers work at a site where an overpass for a metro partially collapsed with train cars on it at Olivos station in Mexico City on May 3, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] MEXICO CITY - At least fifteen people were killed and 70 hurt when...
This paper presents the preliminary investigation into the cause of a recent hotel collapse in Wujiang, Suzhou, which resulted in 17 deaths and serious injuries to 5 people. The objective of this study is to contribute to the understanding of old building collapses accidents and supply effective ...
Three people were killed and four others injured after a part of a ramp bridge in Ezhou City, central China's Hubei Province, tilted on one side on Saturday afternoon, according to the local emergency management agency. The accident took place at around 3:37 p.m. BJT, whe...
were on the verge of collapse. Bock, the commander at the scene, had a natural tendency to agree with Hitler. On December 2 a further effort was launched, and some detachments penetrated into thesuburbsof Moscow, but the advance as a whole was held up in the forests covering the ...
No casualties have been reported as residents were evacuated in a timely manner from a six-story residential building, which tilted Wednesday morning in the city of Shenzhen, southern China's Guangdong Province, local authorities said. The apartment building is seen after its collapse in Shenzhen,...